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The attack
The information disclosed to the media is sketchy; it’s not even
clear that the target was actually in Syria, as opposed to Lebanon.
I heard on Fox earlier this evening that people in Lebanon had reported
seeing IAF aircraft overhead during the period in question (some time
Thursday or Friday). The statement(s) of U.S. officials indicate that
we don’t think the IAF aircraft entered Syrian air space to conduct the
attack.
The overall description of the Israeli strike package – an aircraft
group of limited size; no evidence of multiple, extended sorties;
striking from a position over Lebanon – strengthens the case I laid out earlier this week that Israel is likely attacking arms shipments to Hezbollah rather than attacking installations in Syria.

Friday, May 03, 2013

The Obama administration is quite worried about stereotyping
Muslims as violence-prone terrorists. They fear that any acknowledgment
that some Muslims commit acts of terror because they are religiously
motivated (however twisted the terrorists' interpretation of Islam may
be) is to encourage a backlash of intolerance (at best) and violence (at
worst) against Muslim Americans.

It's not crazy to worry about anti-Muslim violence. There
have been vicious attacks on innocent Muslims. Last November, a Queens,
N.Y., man was stabbed six times as he stood outside his mosque by an
attacker who shouted "F------ Muslim, I'll kill you." In the wake of the
Boston bombing, a drunk Northern Virginia man reportedly attacked and
broke the jaw of a cab driver (an Army reservist who served in Iraq and
at Guantanamo) after snarling "If you're a Muslim, you're a (expletive)
jihadist. You are just as bad as the rest of them."

The worst instance of what was probably intended as anti-Muslim
violence was the August 2012 attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
Sikhs, who wear turbans, are frequently mistaken for Muslims. Wade
Michael Page opened fire in the temple, killing six and wounding four
(including a police officer) before turning the gun on himself. Page
reportedly had links to white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.

Anti-Muslim bigotry clearly exists, as does bias against every other
group or conceivable group in American society. Such bias is obviously
misguided and counterproductive. It's also fairly uncommon.

For over 30 years, starting in the early 1960s, Monty Hall
hosted "Let's Make a Deal," one of the most popular game shows in
television history. He was not only the show's impresario, he created
and produced it, and today, at 91, he is still involved with its
creative evolution.

But while Hall has fond memories of the thousands of "deals"
he made on his show, when I met him for lunch the other day at the
Hillcrest Country Club, he had other deals in mind.

In particular, he told me about a deal he made more than 75 years ago with a Jewish man named Max Freed.

Hall had dropped out of college after his first year because
he couldn't afford to continue. He was living with his family in
Winnipeg, a city of long winters in western Canada that attracted many
Jews from Ukraine. The Hall clan spent many years struggling financially
and living in close quarters.

In
1975 the United Nations General Assembly passed its infamous resolution
equating Zionism with racism. Although rescinded some years later, it
established a plan for delegitimizing Israel by undermining Jewish
national claims and rewriting history. That plan continues today,
finding expression in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (“BDS”)
movement, the left-wing obsession to brand Israel an apartheid state,
and the revisionist Palestinian narrative. It is also enabled by a
Jewish left that excuses progressive Israel bashers by falsely
distinguishing anti-Zionism from Jew-hatred. But denying that Jews are
entitled to sovereignty in their homeland requires the suppression of
Jewish history and acceptance of an incompatible national myth that has
no factual foundation. To deny Jews the basic right of
self-determination is to denigrate their stature as an extant, ancient
people; and treating them differently from all other nations on earth is
indeed a form of antisemitism.

What this implies is that, if the
Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria are not separated from our population
via a state of their own, they
will ultimately be absorbed into Israel, affecting the Jewish nature of the
state.

Every day we hear additional heartbreaking stories depicting the
appalling suffering of destitute elderly Holocaust survivors denied
elementary needs such as food, medicine and other basic services to
enable them to live out their remaining years with dignity.

Yet despite the public clamor, the Conference on Material Claims
against Germany (Claims Conference) has ignored appeals to consider
temporarily freezing a number of projects and diverting the funds to
survivors in desperate need of support.Every day we hear additional
heartbreaking stories depicting the appalling suffering of destitute
elderly Holocaust survivors denied elementary needs such as food,
medicine and other basic services to enable them to live out their
remaining years with dignity.

In addition, the scandal of the $57 million embezzled by Claims Conference employees seems unending.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Hamas’srecent campaignto be removed from the
European Union’s terror list is unlikely to succeed given its
stance toward Israel, according to statements provided toThe Towerby
France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot.

Bigot toldThe Towerthat
“France’s position on Hamas is clear.” The Iran-backed terror
group would have to meet conditions laid down by the Quartet –
the mediating group made up of the United States, Russia, the
E.U., and the United Nations – before France would agree to
engage the organization. Those conditions include recognition of
Israel, cessation of violence, and acceptance of agreements
signed between the Palestinians and Israel.

Yesterday morning, Evyatar
Borovsky, 31, was knifed to death by a terrorist at the Tapuach Junction in
Samaria. Borovsky, who lived in near-by Yitzhar, was the father of five,
the eldest of whom is seven.

Credit:
CIFWatch

Borovsky was praised at his
funeral -- which was attended by thousands -- as an exemplary son, husband, and
father, an actor, an intellectual, and a medical clown who loved
to make people laugh.

"My righteous son was killed just
for being Jewish," said his father, "and now five children have no
father."

[Editor's note: The following is Part II of an essay originally published by The Inquisitr, with a comprehensive introduction by Wolff Bachner. Part I can beread here.]

The Modern Era

The sort of Muslim attacks on Christian churches described by the
historian Maqrizi and conforming to the Conditions of Omar are
reoccurring with increased frequency. Again, while the patterns
described above are occurring all around the Muslim world—sometimes
even in the West—modern day Egypt alone, with its significant Christian
population, offers an abundance of recent examples.
After some 14 centuries of persecution and church attacks,E gypt’s
Copts ushered in the 2011 new year by having one of their largest
churches attacked: during midnight mass in the early hours of January 1,
2011, the Two Saints Coptic Church in Alexandria, crowded with hundreds
of Christian worshipers praying for the new year, was bombed, leaving
at least 23 dead and approximately 100 injured.

South Florida has one of the world’s largest populations of
Ashkenazis — Jews of Central and Eastern European descent — making it
home to some potentially groundbreaking medical research. In Boca Raton,
the Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center is in the midst
of a project, funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, to study local
Ashkenazi Jews in the hopes of better understanding what causes
Parkinson’s, and how to prevent it. ￼At the University of South Florida,
a study involving Ashkenazi women from the Miami area explored cultural
and religious influences on colorectal cancer.

IT says a great deal about the illiberal tendencies of parts of our
academic community that the anti-Israeli boycott, divestment and
sanctions movement - which often borders on the anti-Semitic - finds
support in the humanities faculties of some of our universities.

Given the right of people to go about their legal business, and
shop where they please, it is questionable that the University of NSW
should even tolerate protests against a chocolate shop being established
on its site. But it is beyond question that it should take action
against protesters using blatantly racist and anti-Semitic language as
part of these protests. We expect that, quite rightly, there would be
forceful action to stamp out any vilification of, say, Muslim or Asian
students. Yet seemingly the targeting of Israeli-linked companies and
Jewish people throws up a confected moral quandary.

At an April 17 session before the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, the new Secretary of State, John Kerry, lightly dismissed the
assassination of a U.S. ambassador and three security personnel in
Benghazi, Libya, saying "I don't think anybody lied to anybody. And
let's find out exactly, together, what happened, because we need -- we
got a lot more important things to move on to and get done."

This has been the party line of the White House since the attack
occurred on September 11, 2012. The initial response was to send out the
hapless lackey, then-US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, to
tell absurd lies about a video that incited the attack. Even the Libyan
president dismissed that.
Operating on the belief that the longer the attack recedes into the
past, the less likely it will be a political problem, the administration
continues to stonewall. That's not going to happen. Rep. Trey Gowdy
(R-SC), speaking on Fox News on April 27 promised "explosive"
congressional hearings regarding the Benghazi attack, saying they are
"coming soon."

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

As
the British began to dismantle their Mandate [The British Mandate] and
leave western Palestine, Israel’s War of Independence began (November
30, 1947‑May 14, 1948). During
the war, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict, and by
its end, rather than accept a Jewish state after five-and-a-half months
of warfare, Palestinian Arabs called upon their brethren from seven
surrounding countries to invade and crush the nascent Jewish state.

Six thousand Jews – 1 percent of Israel’s Jewish population – lost their lives during the War of Independence.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Interview with Zuheir Salem, spokesman for the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Zuheir Salem. Source: Tam Hussein

Out of all the places to meet Zuheir Salem, the number two man of the
Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB), a David Brent-style office in
Alperton, north London, is probably the least expected. The office of
the SMB is so elusive that even the security guard does not know what
the SMB are or what they do. According to him, it is some sort of
charity where lots of Middle Eastern-looking types come in for meetings
and leave late. “I don’t ask any questions, boss—if you know what I
mean,” he says with a knowing wink.

We
now have had a number of terrorist attacks on the homeland -- though
the administration often refers to them in ridiculous euphemisms like
"workplace violence" -- and the behavior of the administration,
including our lavishly funded FBI and Homeland Security Administration,
and our richly rewarded media stars remains so predictable I've decided
to spare you the time it takes to unravel the unending lies and
poppycock we are regularly fed about these horrors, lies, and blundering
that only increase our danger.

Last week, The Algemeiner newspaper released its 'JEWISH 100' list of "the top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life." Among the "Jewish 100" is Palestinian Media Watch's director Itamar Marcus.

"You have been chosen," The Algemeiner wrote, "for your impactful work on behalf of the Jewish people and/or the state of Israel."

"PMW
is an indispensable resource that makes it that much more difficult for
Palestinian elements intent on harming Jews to succeed." [The Algemeiner, April 24, 2013]

Reports of foiled operations might stand as "tipping point" for EU to include Hezbollah on blacklist.

A bus is blown up during a controlled explosion by investigators probing Bulgaria terror attack Photo: reuters

As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization
Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and
Hezbollah terror and criminal plots against targets spanning Bulgaria, Nepal,
Canada and the US.
Will the mushrooming patchwork of global terrorism
push the EU to include Hezbollah in its terror list? An EU designation could
deal a one-two punch to the Lebanese group and its chief proxy Iran.

Here's
your motive, geniuses: Muhammad said that “the last hour would not come
unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would
kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree
and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there
is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” (Sahih Muslim 6985).

But
the elites have already decided that the motive for such things can't
possibly be found in Islamic texts and teachings, which are completely
and utterly benign, and so they have to find the cause elsewhere. We see
the same thing happening with the Boston jihad bombings.

April 23, 2013, PARIS
(AP) — An escapee from a psychiatric institution slashed a rabbi and
his son with a box-cutter on Tuesday, prompting witnesses to tackle and
subdue the attacker after a chase through a Paris synagogue, officials
said.

The
rabbi, who is in his late 40s, was recovering from surgery for a neck
injury and his 18 year-old son sustained lesser injuries in the attack
north of a touristic shopping area near Paris’ gilded Opera Garnier,
according to police and judicial officials and Richard Prasquier, who
heads CRIF, France’s largest umbrella organization of Jewish groups.

Caroline Glick & Mark Levin: The Israeli Solution -- A One-State Pla

Why Israel Opposes International Forces in the Jordan Valley

U.S. scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel

Yet another indication of the absolute corruption of American academia today. "US scholars' group votes in favor of academic boycott of Israel," from the Jerusalem Post, December 16: NEW YORK – The 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to...http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/us-scholars-group-votes-in-favor-of-academic-boycott-of-israel.html

Israel Living Prophecy

A senior New Israel Fund officer told a U.S. official in 2010 that the disappearance of the Jewish state would not be a tragedy, according to a document that was leaked by Wikileaks...She commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

Mideast expert Michael Widlanski: Fatah is a joke

US-Israeli talks focus on Ahmadinejad's possible ouster

How to exploit the deep cracks forming in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration for removing the Iranian president was a top item on the agenda of the high-level talks between Barack Obama's advisers and Israeli officials at Mossad headquarters in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, Wednesday, July 29.

DEBKAfile's Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad's cabinet is falling apart; of his original lineup of 21 ministers, only nine remain at their posts.

The Identity Of The Land

Why the Palestinians need to recognize the Jewish State

We do NOT support a 2-state solution

A January 2009 poll found that Americans oppose creating a Palestinian state by 45-31 percent. A February 2009 Maagar Mohot Survey Institute poll has also shown that Israelis oppose creating a Palestinian state by 51-32 percent.

Many other polls tell a similar story.

These figures suggest that Americans and Israelis have understood that creating a Palestinian state under current conditions will not bring peace but merely another terror state.

Netanya,Israel

Jerusalem At Night

Why reconstruct Gaza without making demands

- that Shalit be release without convicted terrorists being released by Israel in exchange,

- that the US be put in charge of the southern border to ensure that Hamas isn’t rearmed?

- that their three preconditions be accepted by Hamas, i.e. agree to all former agreements,recognize Israel and renounce terror

- that Hamas amend their Charter

- That Hamas disconnect from Iran

The answer is that they don’t want to.

Children of Hamas

Picture of Hamas children the media does not show you

IDF: Civilian Deaths in Gaza Less than 25% of Total

A maximum of 25% of the Palestinians killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli operation are innocent civilians, the head of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), Col. Moshe Levi, said Wednesday. According to Palestinian medical officials, Israel has killed some 1,000 Palestinians and more than half of them are civilians. Levi said the CLA had compiled a list with the names of 900 Palestinians killed during the fighting. He said that 150 names were of women, children and elderly, and that the maximum number of civilians killed so far was 250. Levi also dismissed claims that 43 Palestinians were killed in an IDF attack on a Hamas terror cell that was firing mortars at Israeli forces from within an UNRWA school in Jabalya. Levi said 21 Palestinians were killed in the attack, including a number of Hamas operatives. (Jerusalem Post)

Hamas teaching the children of Gaza

An Iranian reformist daily newspaper has criticized Hamas "for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals." This is reported in today's Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam. The Palestinian daily adds that in response the Iranian government has closed the newspaper.

"The Iranian news agency "Irna" reported yesterday, that the Iranian Culture Ministry has closed the reformist daily newspaper "Karjo Zaran", because it published a report that included criticism of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). On December 30 the paper published a statement of a reformist student organization, that has criticized Hamas for risking lives of civilians, amongst them children, by hiding its forces in nurseries and hospitals. The statement was published whilst the Iranian government expresses a unified stands against Israel, and Tehran is overwhelmed by demonstrations against Israel."

[Al-Ayyam, Jan. 1, 2009] Thanks PMW

Iran-backed Hamas Rocket, Mortar Attacks and Nuclear Developments

9,400+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2003. [1]3,200+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza in 2008 alone. [2]6,500+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. [3]543+ rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israeli territory during the ceasefire from June 19 to Dec. 19, 2008. [4]28 deaths caused by rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. The dead include Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire ended, Iran-backed Palestinian groups in Gaza fired rockets and mortars that killed an Israeli-Arab construction worker and a mother of four who was seeking shelter in a bus station as a rocket warning siren sounded. [5]1,000+ people in Israel injured from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza since 2001, including Israelis, Palestinians and foreign workers. Since the ceasefire, 44 Israelis have been injured and 200 have been treated for shock. [6]Thanks Israel Project

It began with this...

The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.

“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate theachievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities inPalestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.2

Signed,Arthur James Balfour[Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]

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About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member

Syria is an Occupier-Are You Listening World?

As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself.

The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for UN Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the UN. In meticulous detail - supplemented by photographs and satellite images - the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated.

Though the land grabs are small affairs individually, they collectively add up to an area amounting to about 4% of Lebanese soil - in U.S. terms, the proportional equivalent of Arizona. Of particular note is that the area of Syrian conquest dwarves that of the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms which amount to an area of about 12 square miles.

It would be nice to see the Arab world protest this case of illegal occupation, given its passions about the subject.

Information worth Possessing

"Israel gave the Palestinians an autonomy in 42% of the West Bank and Gaza after the Oslo accords in the early 90's. Over 92% of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were then under the administration of the Palestinian Authority and its Chairman Yasser Arafat.

"Israel is surrounded by 10 hostile Arab countries who do not even recognize its right to exist ( Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Lybia, Morocco, Tunisia, Aden) and Iran"